On Feb 6, 2017, at 3:33 AM, Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote: > > Hi Gerald, > >> Copying the two guys listed as testsuite maintainers in gcc/MAINTAINERS >> may help; let me do that for you. >> >> That said, if this fails to fail, the patch might be considered obvious, >> not requiring a approval? > > it's not: while it may XPASS with newer glibc versions, it still XFAILs > e.g. on Solaris (and probably others). So unconditionally removing the > xfail *-*-* trades an XPASS->PASS on some Linux versions against a > XFAIL->FAIL elsewhere, which isn't acceptable.
So, if it passes most everywhere, then I think the systems where it fails need to be identified and listed. Are there any solaris systems where it works? Systems like darwin and freebsd and aix seem to suggest that things should generally work; which means that the problem is likely just specific implementations of specific software. Anyone know of any other systems where it fails? I'll copy Jason to see if he recalls any systems where this might still fail. Anyway, I'd recommend just xfailing on solaris, and getting on with life. Other systems that fail, will trivially add themselves, or identify a way to xfail or otherwise mark as unsupported or add a new requirement if they prefer. Any objections?
